Huntsville gazette., 1887-01-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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Grand Mistress of the order of ST. Their
esa, has bestowed the order upon Prince
Bismarck.
A VERY severe snow-storm prevailed
throughout the midland countries of En-
gland on the Sth.
The German ship Elizabeth was wrecked
on the Virginia coast on the Sth, and her
entire crew OF twenty persons, together
with five members Of the life-saving crew,
.svho4were=- endeavoriag 60 render assist
ance, were drowned.
FOUR clrcuses are at present running in
London and doing good business.
LADY COLIN CAMPBELL has been offered
9100 per night for concert tour of Lon
don and the provinces.
PROF. GOODWIN SMITH, it is reported,
will shortly return to England and take
up his residence at Oxford.
The Baltimore Central Labor Union has
boycotted Philadelphia beer.
SERGEANT BALLANTINE, the great En-
glish lawyer, died on the 9th.
PATRICK POWERS was killed on the 9th
by dynamite explosion in Philadelphia.
Two young lady art students and a young
man were suffocated by gas in their hotel
in Rome on the night of the Sth. 1t was
case of deliberate suicide.
SENATOR EvARTs is to make a great
speech against the Inter State Commerce
bill this week
NJ. ZANKoFF has gone from Sofia to Con-
stantinople to explain the Bulgarian situa-
tion to the Sultan.
Ex-DIsTRICT-ATToRNE BLISS for the
Eastern district of Missouri has brought
suit in the Court of Claims for S3, 175 dis
allowed fee bills.
&c oJ,o IF icto NJ in
the hands Of John Hallstrumb in New
York killed his six-year-old daughter.
THREE fine business buildings were de-
stroyed by fire at Hartford, Conn, on the
9th Thomas r. Laughton perished in the
flames.
A COLLISION on the Wilmington &
Northern railroad in Pennsylvania, on the
9th resulted in the death Of conductor
and a passenger.
DEs MONIES, Ia, had $4,000 fire on the
night of the 10Th.
CoNGREssMAN-ELECT MoSHANE is the
latest senatorial candidate in Nebraska.
FIRE destroyed the library Of the Al
cazar palace at Madrid on the 10th.
MINERS wages have been reduced at
Des Moines, Ia, and strike seems proba-
BILE
GLADSTONE writes that Lord Randolph
Churchill's resignation was justifable
under the circum stances.
ELAN R. JEwETT, formerly prominent
journalist of Buffalo, n. Y, is dead.
JOHN Roach, the ship-builder, died at
his home in New York on the 10th, after
| long illness with cancer in the roof of his
mouth
| An unfounded report that the infanta
| Isabella had been kidnapped or killed
| caused great sensation at Madrid on the
10th
SIXTEEN bodies were washed ashore on
the 10th from the wreck of the German
ship Elizabeth, on the Virginia coast.
THE reply of the French Foreign Minis
ter advising Bulgaria to come to terms
with Russia and Turkey, is approved by
the Paris newspapers.
THE case of ''Boodler'' O'Neall was
called up at New York on the 10th, and
Monday, the nth inst, was fixed upon for
the trial
JUDGE BARRETT in the Supreme Courtat
New York, on the 10th, denied the motion
for a change of venue in the case of Joseph
Sharpe.
PROF. B. ScHAFF, in jail at Cincinnati
charged with swindling book publishers,
committed suicide on the 10th by taking
morphine
PRINCE ALEXANDER is said to have in
formed Count Kalnoly that he will not
return to Bulgaria, even if a powerful
party should recall him.
ALEX. CRAWFORD, of Duluth, Mimi, and
his three brothers have fallen heirs to a
fortune Of over 81, ,000,0O by the death OF
cousin in Australia.
COLONEL FREDERICK BENTON, soldier
who distinguished himself with Custer,
is to be tried by court-martlal at TT
Duchesne for too fondly courting the flow
ing bowl
CoRINTH, MISS, held rousing business
meeting on the 10th, and viii make an ef-
fort to secure two or three railroads.
BELMONT & CO. were the successful bid
ders for the sl,000,000 Northern Pacific
bonds sold at New York on the 10th.
THE annual convention of the Interna
tional Union of Bricklayers met in Wash
ington on the 10th.
A FIRE at McKeesport, Pa, on the 10th,
totally destroyed the McKeesport Galvan-
izing works. The loss is placed at S5O,0OO,
which is fully covered by ins urance. The
works will be rebuilt at once.
THE receipts of the French treasury for
1886 show decrease of 32,O00OO0 francs,
compared with those Of 1888, and a
deficiency of 100000 francs compared
with the amount estimated in the budget
for 1886
A wEsT-BoUND snOw-plow on the
Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg railroad
ran into an east bound passenger train at
Ontario, N Y, on the 10th. Three men
who were on the snow-plow were badly
hurt. Michael Minnehan receiving proba-
bly, fatal injuries.
THE indianapolis & Vincennes passenger
train, leaving Indianapolis on the night
of the 10th, was thrown from the track
about three miles from the city by a
broken rail All the coaches LETT the
track, rolling down an embankment
There were about seventy-five passengers
aboard, nearly all of whom were more or
less injured, but no one was killed.
NEIGHBoRs seeing no one stirring about
the residence of Jos. King, at Ortonvllle,
Mimi, on the 10th, forced an entrance and
found Mr.. and Mrs. King in bed apparent
lv dead and the house full OF coal gas.
Everything possible was done to bring
the unfortunates back to life, and in the
case of Mr.. King with partial success